The record, 20 août 1991, mardi 20 août 1991
the 40 cents CLOUDY Soviets take armored step back By Jim Sheppard MOSCOW (CPi — Communist hardliners, backed by the Soviet army, ousted President Mikhail Gorbachev in a bloodless pre-dawn coup Monday.The country's new leadership.headed by former vice-president Gennady Yanayev, immediately declared a six month state of emergency "in some parts of the Soviet Union" to prevent what it cal led a national catastrophe." Then it sent tanks, armored personnel carriers and heavily equipped troops into Moscow and the three Baltic republics of Lithuania.Latvia and Estonia.The country's leading anticommunist.Russian Federation President Boris Yeltsin, rallied resistance around his republic's parliament building in the centre of Moscow, about one kilometre from the new go- Help was too little too late — Page 4 Soviet old guard has big plans — Page 4 ‘The KGB and the army are back’ — Page 4 Mme Monique gets a lift Wm ».’T m :i Kt Iflafry St-François A/V/t Monique Gagnon-Tremblay nor a power lift from Mayor Robert Fouliol after sin broke the /(round for a street widening project in Ascot.The MNA was diyninn up dirt everywhere on Mon- day.She also turned the sod for a new arts centre at Hishop's I niversity.Turn to pane A for more on both.Kl ( I >KI> —Tuesday.August 20, 1991—3 SHERBROOKE
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